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ROADSIDES<br>
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New guidelines can help highway departments, county road<br>
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managers, and others provide habitat for pollinators.</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.xerces.org/press-releases/Drag%20to%20a%20file%20to%20make%20a%20link." target="_blank"><img src="http://www.xerces.org/press-releases/roadsidescover.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="264" width="204"></a>The Xerces
Society for Invertebrate
Conservation is pleased to announce the release of <i><a href="http://www.xerces.org/pollinator-conservation-roadsides/" target="_blank">Pollinators and Roadsides: Managing Roadsides for Bees
and Butterflies</a></i>. These guidelines provide a concise overview
of the conservation potential of roadside habitat and offer practical
information on how to maximize the value of these areas for pollinators
while meeting basic traffic safety requirements. </p>
<p>With more than 10 million acres of land in roadsides in the United
States alone, transportation rights-of-way are a significant, yet
often overlooked, resource for pollinator conservation. In landscapes
denuded of natural areas by large scale agriculture or urbanization,
roadsides are an increasingly important component of regional habitat
networks. They frequently support native vegetation, providing refuge
for wildlife and connecting fragmented habitat. The wildlife living on
roadsides touches communities in every state, province, and county of
North America.</p>
<p><i>Pollinators and Roadsides</i>, synthesizes the previous study
of native bees in roadside rights-of-way conducted by Jennifer
Hopwood, the Xerces Society’s Midwest pollinator outreach coordinator.
Jennifer’s research demonstrated that bees were twice as abundant on
roadsides with native prairie vegetation than on those dominated by
nonnative plants, and that native roadsides supported a third more bee
species than roadsides with nonnative plants. </p>
<p>These findings are reinforced by studies from North America and
Europe that consistently show that roadsides have a role to play in
conserving bees, butterflies, and other pollinating insects. <i>Pollinators
and Roadsides</i> draws on these studies, as well as the experience
of roadside managers, to identify ways in which current maintenance
practices can be adapted to benefit pollinators.</p>
<p><i>Pollinators and Roadsides</i> is available from the Xerces
Society's website, <a href="http://www.xerces.org/" target="_blank">www.xerces.org</a>.</p>
<p>Funding for these guidelines comes from The Ceres Foundation, CS
Fund, Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, Natural Resources Foundation
of Wisconsin, Turner Foundation, and The Wildwood Foundation.</p>
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<p><span>ABOUT THE XERCES SOCIETY</span><br>
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The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects
wildlife
through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat.
Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate
protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the
enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs. To learn
more about our work, please visit <a href="http://www.xerces.org/" target="_blank">www.xerces.org</a>.<br>
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<p><span>PHOTO CREDIT</span><br>
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Prairie clover blooming in a roadside in Iowa, by Kirk Henderson. </p>
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